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All 15-year-old Dusty wanted was to attend his hometown's bash for the 1893 Land Run centennial. Instead, he's witnessed a hate crime and he's driving the getaway car. Now a white eagle has invaded his dreams, taking him back to the Poncas' forced removal to Oklahoma and the courtroom victory of a Native American civil rights activist: Chief Standing Bear. Will Dusty have the courage to act on what he's learned?
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Barbara Hay is a former reporter and columnist. Lesson of the White Eagle is her first book. Hay holds a degree from the University of Oklahoma. The widowed mother of four children, she lives and writes at her home in Oklahoma.
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All fifteen-year-old Dusty Hamilton wanted was to go to his hometown's bash for the 1893 Land Run centennial. Instead, the Oklahoma teen finds himself a witness to a hate crime and he's the one driving the getaway car. Now a mystical white eagle has invaded his dreams, making him question everything he thought he knew about Native Americans and the bonds of childhood friendship. After the white eagle takes Dusty back in time to watch the horrors the Poncas endured on their forced removal from northeastern Nebraska to the wilds of Oklahoma Territory, Dusty must decide whether or not to act on the lesson he learned from seeing in action one of the first civil rights activists in the United States the Ponca's own Chief Standing Bear.
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From the heart of Native America comes Barbara Hay's Lesson of the White Eagle All fifteen-year-old Dusty Hamilton wanted was to go to his hometown's bash for the 1893 Land Run centennial.Instead, the Oklahoma teen finds himself a witness to a hate crime and he's driving the getaway car.Now a mystical white eagle has invaded his dreams, making him question everything he thought he knew about Native Americans and the bonds of childhood friendship.After the white eagle takes Dusty back in time to watch the horrors the Poncas endured on their forced removal from northeastern Nebraska to the wilds of Oklahoma Territory, Dusty must decide whether or not to act on the lesson he has learned from seeing in action one of the first civil rights activists in the United States the Ponca's own Chief Standing Bear.
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Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Wie neu. Peter Hay; Steven Walker (illustrator). 125 Seiten Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 277. Artikel-Nr. 306286
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